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diff --git a/tests/chmod/octal b/tests/chmod/octal
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+#!/bin/sh
+# ensure that chmod diagnoses a certain type of invalid mode string
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+  set -x
+  chmod --version
+fi
+
+pwd=`pwd`
+t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$
+trap 'status=$?; cd $pwd; chmod -R u+rwx $t0; rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0
+trap '(exit $?); exit $?' 1 2 13 15
+
+framework_failure=0
+mkdir -p $tmp || framework_failure=1
+cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
+
+if test $framework_failure = 1; then
+  echo "$0: failure in testing framework" 1>&2
+  (exit 1); exit 1
+fi
+
+fail=0
+
+# Before coreutils-5.92, this would mistakenly succeed,
+# and act like `chmod 0 .'.
+chmod 0-followed-by-anything . 2> /dev/null && fail=1
+chmod 7-followed-by-anything . 2> /dev/null && fail=1
+chmod 8                      . 2> /dev/null && fail=1
+
+(exit $fail); exit $fail